Comment by glenstein
If you click on Preferences, it's under Appearance which is the first section you see. You can change the site theme to a light option. At least on Mastodon.social.
If you click on Preferences, it's under Appearance which is the first section you see. You can change the site theme to a light option. At least on Mastodon.social.
I'm on two instances and both have a Preferences button.
Is it possible that your instance moved it away from the default place? What instance are you on, I can help you find what you need to click.
It's the link in the article. But I'm diverting the thread at this point and arguably making this a worse place by doing so. The other replies indicate that the question has been raised and is under consideration, which is all I can ask given that I'm not prepared to jump on Github and send them a PR myself. Thanks for your reply and the rest of the input people have offered!
And the admin should probably use the automatic setting. There is a feature request for a user preference when not logged in.[1]
There's no Preferences button. If there is, they've either hidden it well, or it's not visible without a login.
There should simply be a button -- a conspicuous one -- that toggles the color scheme. It's trivial to add such a button. It doesn't need to be tied to a user ID; it doesn't even need to set a cookie. The fact that no such button exists is a choice someone made, a poor choice that disregards decades of human-machine interface research.
Failure to go full Karen about goofy things like this has made the Web a little worse for almost everyone in one way or another. So... there ya go.